Improvement in wagon-brakes



G. W. SANBORN.

, Wagon Brake.

' PatentedDec. 6,1870.

fitnitrh tate$ GEORGE W. SANBORN, OFGILMANTOMNEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 109,843, dated December 6,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BRAKES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, Gnonen W. Summer, of Gihnanton, in the county of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain Improvements in Cart 'and \Vag- Oll-Bl'llkCS, of which the following is a specification.

Nature-(m d Objects of the Invention-.-

My invention consists in applying to a'eart or wagon, brakes and connecting them with the yoke in such a manner that said brakes beeomeself-acting' when it becomes necessary to brake up or hold back the eart or wagon;

Description of flw AccompanyinjDrawing. Figure 1 is a i'iew of the brake andxlever. f Figure 2 is a view of the cart with the brake and lever attached.

General Description. l first construct a brake, marked B b l), and a hinge lever, marked A A. A, in fig. 1. I then attach to the I I then place a grooved truck, marked 0, in fig. 2' in the cart-tongue, and I also place a. grooved truck,

.marked 1), in the iron guard G at the end of the carttongue, as seen in fig. 2.

I then attach a'strong rope to the iniddle of the hinge-lever A A A, pass it up through the cart-tongue orerthe truckQ-alongthe cart-tongue and around the truck D, and then fasten it to the yoke F by 110014,, I

' marked 71. 5 i

When it is necessary to use the brakes the attach ment is made, asset 1701a,; and the cattle, by holding back on the yoke, draw, by means of the rope E,

upon the hinge-lever. A A, A attached to the bar B, and the brakesare firmly forced against-the wheels.

' When the cattle start forward the rope isslacke'ued and the brakes are released;

v I Claim.

I I ClilllIl lS niy invention The combination of thebrakes B 1) band the hinge lever'A A A, attached, by the rope E, to the yoke,

substantially as and for the purpose hercinbefore setforth.

l GEORGE \V. SANBOR-N.

Witnesses I H. A. TUTTLE, FRANK TILTON. 

